Building your confidence from scratch

By Lela Ordinaev, Dec 19, 2017

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Confidence is so hard to come by these days for so many people. Self-assuredness and self-esteem are such fragile things; they can take a lifetime to build and minutes to destroy. Trying to build your confidence when you don’t have any is one of the trickiest things, but, it’s even harder to build your confidence from scratch again after losing it.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you need to have confidence in yourself. You don’t always have to present that you have confidence, but it should always be there. Of course, it’s easy for us to say, and might actually be harder to accomplish in practice. So, what can we do to build confidence, and what do we need to know about confidence. These are some of the key things to consider about building confidence.

It isn’t always natural

For some people, confidence is a thing that comes naturally – many of us are just born as more confident individuals. Also, people who have enjoyed successful or privileged lives may also have a degree of natural confidence because they have been raised with opportunities and positives surrounding them. For others, confidence is not natural, but rather, it develops over time, and is nurtured when you find your passion and start excelling at it.

Overcoming new challenges

When you overcome new challenges, you will be in a position where you build your confidence up. Challenges come thick and fast in life, especially as you get older, and you will have to adapt in order to overcome these challenges. But, the good thing is that with each one you overcome, you will build more confidence, and this will help you become more confident and assertive in the future. With every achievement and accomplishment, you put yourself in a better position for future progression.

Love yourself

There are a lot of things that can link to self-confidence, and looking after and loving yourself is one of the best things you can do. When you love and respect yourself, you look better, and you feel better. A fit body leads to a fit mind, and this helps to boost your confidence and help you achieve more things. This can sometimes be the hardest thing because it’s easy to get down on yourself. But, if you look after yourself, and your body & mind it will certainly boost your self-confidence.

Don’t surround yourself with negative people

Negative people are not good for your confidence, and will only bring you down. You have to understand that the people you surround yourself with play a big role in your life and the way you feel about yourselves. It’s so crucial to make sure you have positive influences in your life, and that’s all about the people you surround yourself with. Building up your confidence is essential, and the way to do it is to surround yourself with more positive people.

We know how tricky it can be to build confidence from scratch, and you need to look at the best ways of doing this. Overcoming obstacles is a great start, and so is loving and respecting yourself, so you’ve got to make sure you do. Building and boosting your confidence is the best way of improving your life and furthering your prospects.